WEBVTT - Episode 283: Hey Big Head (Feat. Tyler Lepley) 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.040 What's it's a lip service. I'm Angela Ye, I'm g 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.600 g McGuire. I'm Lauri, y'all, and we have a new 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.719 beyond lip service. Uh, I guess this is where I'm 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.040 supposed to introduce myself. Yeah, press off the press out 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.119 of the valley, back on the West coast, Tyler level, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.720 that's a nice you have. Yeah. Oh this I just 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:28.560 I just threw it on. You know, now, Tyler, you 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.000 have such an interesting story to me, because it's not 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.120 like you. Your whole life was like one day I'm 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.400 going to be an actor, and that's not how things 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.920 happened for you know. So, um, you know my uh, 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:41.600 you know, my way into the game was a little 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.880 bit unorthodox for sure. Um. I came up right outside 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.120 of Philly. I went through a string of failures. Um 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.360 thought I was gonna be you know, playing football on 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.599 Sunday in the NFL. Didn't work out like that, you know, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.680 But I learned a lot. I learned a lot from 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.880 those losses. But you know, when I went through the 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.320 string of losses, I moved out West just because I 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.480 kind of wanted to start fresh. I was about twenty 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.680 three when I graduated from college and Uh, I came 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.000 out West and actually I kind of just found my 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.399 way into the gym. My cousin was a boxer, so 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.640 I was just hanging around the gym and um, you know, 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.959 if I'm I got a person kind of finessed a 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.280 personal training job and then, um, you know LA is 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.720 very saturated. Yeah, l A is very saturated with people 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.760 in the business. So you know, just hanging around it 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.920 for a few months, probably like maybe months two or three. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.120 Someone had to after the audition, Um, this is probably 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.080 about ten audition for something small, and this is about 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.399 ten years ago. Um, but I booked that role and 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.000 that was kind of the start of me being intrigued 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.680 by something new. So you know, at that point I 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.720 started to apply myself. You know, I got the head 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.720 shots for myself into an acting class and you know, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.360 you did the initial steps that actors try to, you know, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.360 do And ten years later, this is what I've been Um, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.000 you know, this is what I've been applying myself to 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.600 and this this is my passion. I found it in 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.760 an unorthodox way though. Sure. I actually found out that 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.360 you was involved in the box and after you called 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.760 out oh boy, that knocked out Nate Robinson, Jake Paul, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:02:01.080 I really would love to see you knock him out. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.440 What do we have to do, what we have to 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.760 do to make that happen, Like if there a petition 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.280 we could sign and you better knock him out because 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.040 that would be awful. I'm doing this for p Valley 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:19.200 and then now it's the TI Challenge. No, no, you 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.200 ain't gotta worry about that. But I'm listen. If there 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:22.799 is a petition, I'll be we'll we'll be the first 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:27.560 to sign to us for right here. So but um, yeah, man, 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.760 you know, I uh, for for whatever reason, you know, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.400 I couldn't really articulated, but for whatever reason, I ain't 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.280 like what I saw, you know what I mean? And 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.600 you know, to see him, to see him do that. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.280 First of all, I gotta give my hats off to 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.320 both both of those men. You know. I guess we 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.320 can call them fighters, even though they're not professional fighters, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.040 but they're they're they're stepping in the ring as if 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:47.920 they are, So hats off to them for doing that. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:49.960 But it's like when you know the game, you know, 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.799 if that was a sanction about that would never go down, right. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.880 You don't have heavyweights fighting middleweights you know what I mean. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.200 But but because this is like a YouTube type of 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.600 thing and no one's really gonna check Jake doing that. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:02.239 You know, they're just in it for the money that 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.200 they allowed it to go down. But you know, me 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.600 being a part of that sport and having the background 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.800 to go ahead and do that, Um, you know, I 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.399 think I think he needs to pick on someone who 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.280 likes to fight back, someone who wants to you know 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.240 what I'm saying, stepping there and ice him real quick, 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.720 so you know, you know, you know what's funny. Though 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.280 I was popping, I was popping my uh hold on, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.840 we allowed to we allowed to be ourselves. We have 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.160 the curse. I was popping my ship the other day, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.320 and um, you know, I had noticed that he came 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.200 out maybe a few days after he started calling everybody out. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.200 You know, I had noticed. I didn't noticed he didn't 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.600 call he didn't call me out. If he's smart, if 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.880 he's smart, he'll just let it go because you know, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.800 if he sees the dollar signs and steps into the ring, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.440 he might uh, he might see his first loss. I 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:45.840 don't know, as he lost yet. I feel like he's 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.280 been doing this for a little bit now. He only 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.280 like four fights, I think, But I believed you when 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:55.280 whatever you said you was gonna do, I believe. You know. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.040 The thing is I got I got the family, like 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.400 the boxing camp that would help me for pairing for that. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.360 I think where those people get into trouble is that 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.600 they don't take it seriously. You see what I'm saying. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.080 I've seen I've seen a little bit of Nate Robinson's camp, 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:09.839 and he kind of, you know, he he didn't look 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.160 like he was really prepared to go in there, you 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:13.640 know what I mean. So I don't want to put 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.040 it all on him. It's really it's really the camp's 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.560 job to get the fight already. So one thing that 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.680 I'm comfortable with is, you know, having again, you know, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.720 the cousins of the family, having the boxing camp to 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.240 really prepare me for something like that, you know, outside 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.279 of what I'm you know, normally ready to do anyway. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.000 But you know, he wouldn't understanding how long three minutes 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.920 is until you're three minutes trying to fight and stand 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:38.279 up in the ring. Yeah, it's a it's a really 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.279 tough it's a really tough sport. That's why they always 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.440 you know, they have that saying, you know, you play basketball, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:47.320 you played football, you're gonna play boxing? Yeah you don't. Yeah, 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.920 some thing about when you were a personal trainer. To 0:04:50.040 --> 0:05:00.480 flash back to that question that has to happen, right, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:06.479 I was gonna ask how many women would hire you 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:12.440 just because they look good? Yeah, you know that's not 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.240 that's not for me to say because I don't really know. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.239 I never asked them. But here's what I did notice. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.880 I didn't notice that about probably like of my clients 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.520 were it was it was a female base. Um, but 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.599 that was but that was for me. But that was 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.680 also like even if I look at you know, I 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.599 was mentioned to my cousin who's a boxing name is Leon. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.480 He owns a few gems out here. They're called glove Works. Um, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.440 he actually owns one in uh in New York too. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.240 But even even the client base at the gym is like, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.960 uh female. So it's like, you know, it's interesting something 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.880 of a sport like boxing, how it attracts like the 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.720 ladies like that. You know that there I see the 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.800 ladies in there kicking ass and whatnot. But you know, 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.040 to get back to your your question, it's probably like 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.080 nine of the uh my client base was female though, 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.960 you know what I mean, knock a bitch out, so 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.000 that I used to do that thing for that purpose. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.000 So I think women do that also because when I 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.599 did it, because I wanted to be able to defend 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.599 myself in case something happens, because you know, you walk 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.360 by yourself, somebody comes up on you, you gotta fight 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.320 somebody up. You want to at least know how you 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.720 are able to defend yourself. And I was way better 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.320 at me and J J. Mby did it together and 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.320 I was definitely way better than him. You know, I 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.919 got a lot of UM I have. I have lady friends, 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.400 and you know, say if we're um well pre COVID, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.440 you know, back when we were all you know, if 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.120 we were out with something like that, or someone's going 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:34.640 to the car, you know, I would make sure they 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.320 get to their car, you know what I'm saying. Or 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.279 I would make sure they get out or in in 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.720 the venue properly. And you know, a lot of it 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.719 was just because of that, Like you know, I kind 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.360 of I kind of empathize and feel what Angelie was 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.480 talking about because you know, it's just it's just a 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.359 scary place out there. If you don't know how to 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.960 defend yourself, especially for um, you know, a woman like solo, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.240 just you know, running around the world by itself. So 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.800 I I implore everybody to take a couple of lessons too, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.880 because it's always nice to um. It's always a piece 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:01.560 of my know how to how to put them together. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.520 You know. Angela convinced me to go to Rumble for 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.799 something with ye. But it was a midnight boxing class 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.440 and I was so tired because it was late. It 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.120 wasn't Yeah, it was nice, it was nice, but I 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.200 wanted to drink at the same time. I'm like, wait, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:20.200 it's like two eggs doesn't go together. It seemed like 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.520 drinking time, not boxing time to me. But you're you're 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:28.160 dedicated for getting in there at twelve am. Ship, Thank you. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.480 So are you an only child? I remember I read 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:36.320 that somewhere and you said you said you grew up 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.440 outside of Philly. I'm actually from Philly, So what specifically 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.520 I probably do? Yeah? So I was. I was born 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:49.160 in Abington. You know, I was raised in like really 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:53.480 Bucks County area, So I bounced around Bucks County, um, Duelstown, Warranton, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:59.760 Worcester a pretty much pretty much Bucks County is definitely Um, 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.080 like the white area I had, you know. So it 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.080 was interesting. You know, I grew up um probably until 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.040 like middle school, it was all white, you know what 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.840 I mean. So I'm about I'm a biracial man, so 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.400 I was always growing up. I was always you know, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.240 too black for the white kids, you know what I mean. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.920 I remember I remember in second grade one of the 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.280 best friends, Peter Samuel's, and we were riding home on 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.520 the bus together. He said, uh, he said, hey, Tyler, Um, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:22.960 do you know do you know what the nigger is? 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.480 And I said uh, And I was like yeah. I 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.560 was like you know again you know, growing up in 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.000 that white area, I was not prippy to this information yet, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:32.760 see what I'm saying. I didn't know, you know again, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.320 only child too. It's like I had a big brother, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.319 big sister like school me to what was going on. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.079 So I was like, um, you know, no, no, um, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.559 and he was like, uh, well that's where you are. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.160 And then you know, I got all the bus went 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.960 home and it was interesting. It was like he was 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.400 really he was really informing me. He wasn't trying to 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:55.440 be exactly, that's just how that area was, you know. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.400 And then I and then I got older, and then 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.680 I um um, I went to I lived in Vegas 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.360 for a random year, but I moved out there in 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.439 like ninth grade. I went the Foothill and all of 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.200 a sudden, the whole school was black. And now all 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:08.480 of a sudden, I was. I was like, I was 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.040 a light I was a light skin, you know, white 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.560 for the black kids and too white for the black kids. Yeah. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.880 So I was like, you know, I had an interesting, um, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.600 I have an interesting like like perspective grown up in 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.160 that in that realm. You know, you get a black school, 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.240 they call me white boy, you like, with the hell 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.440 that's something that we can Unfortunately, all somem relate to 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.400 Angela's half Asian Glorios cam Puerto Rican. Both my parents 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.880 are mixed. Sod was white when she was younger. I 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.480 was the other truth I was at a point of time. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.280 It wasn't when I was younger. It was in my 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.200 early twenties. I went through this phase where I really 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:49.319 connected with white people and I had a connection I had. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.480 I had a serious connection with white people. And I 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.000 was music and I what was it was? It was 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.200 my surroundings. I was dancing at I was dancing at 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.720 the Lila's in Philly. Oh yeah, I was dancing at 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.160 the Lilas and when I saw down Tyler, you said, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.679 you know where that? So you've been to? The Lilas 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.120 is like the premier gentlemen's club, and it's right next 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:17.839 to the US. It's like your old city, right yeah, Landing, Yes, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.800 didn't you have to know every strip club to do 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.559 your role in pe Valty And know I'm joking you 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.520 did a lot of took it very serious. Yeah, he 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.360 took it serious, right. Yeah. Well I'm a method actress, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.440 so you know I had to act. Are you good? 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.640 Are you good at throw my money in the strip club? 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.280 Because I feel like that's also something that like take 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.800 some you have appearance. I'm not good at it. Trying 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.280 to teach me. Yeah, I've been throwing the whole thing 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.480 and pumped up she making it. Speaking of pe Valley, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.000 I am actually very close friends with Virgo and Simone 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.240 who played extra extra and also on Brazil Brazil. We 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.040 all worked at Magic City together. Um, and Virgo was 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.000 one of my really really really really really closest friends 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:10.480 in my entire life. Um. Yeah, we're actually uh currently 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.720 cast it on a reality show on WeTV together. So 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.400 she literally just left my house and she'll probably be 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.760 here before we end. So she comes in, I'll I'll 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:23.640 tell yeah. But they talked so how real how realists? 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.720 How realist? P Valley for your like when you watched 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.160 the show because I'm coming from me, Well, um, of course, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.200 since I'm so close to them, and uh, Simone actually 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.240 she was the one who ended up being pregnant at 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.040 the end. You guys, she's the She was actually working 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.440 behind the scenes to help authenticate the script, so to say. Um, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.240 as well as being an actress dancer, so um and 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.480 with it was four girls and total who were actually 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.040 really strippers in real life, so they were able to help, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.160 you know, make sure that everything went the way it's 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.880 supposed to go. Um. I absolutely love everything about the show. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.400 Y'all know that. Um, I was like O D obsessed 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.240 And it was wasn't just the fact that I'm a 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.680 former stripper and that my friends were acting on the show, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.840 but it was really authentic. Um. A lot of people 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.400 were like, oh, that's not Atlanta strip clubs, but it 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.360 wasn't supposed to be. It was Mississippi, you know, So 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.880 like the slang and and and everything, and the words 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.240 and everything that they used in the way that they 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.000 went about things um to me it was perfect, Like 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.520 it was really really really good And now I left 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.520 the show. But G G O D S Like when 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.400 I tell you every time I go to the house, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.160 if I go to the house right now, the valley 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.320 is on it, I'm like, you're watching this again? She 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.800 watched She must have watched it fifty times. The who 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.679 I probably did. I probably did no cat yeah and 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.720 watched this new Yeah. I said. It wasn't for utility 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.080 to be castid on that show because obviously when you 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.640 were first filming it, you never know how successful something's 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.719 gonna be. No, yeah, I think you know, first of all, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.000 it's a blessing to be to have a job, you 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.080 know what I mean. We all know what it's like 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.760 to be to work in this entertainment industry. It's a 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.440 very fickle one. You know, sometimes you're hot, sometimes you're cold, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.319 and it's like, you know, to have a steady job 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.240 is always a blessing. So it was. It was nice too. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.560 It was nice to work. But I think, you know, 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.360 a show like this is probably something I would watch 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:11.959 even if I wasn't on it, you know what I mean. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.480 It's really got, it's really got its thumb on the 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.679 post of our culture. So you know, I remember when 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.240 I got the call for it. I was, you know, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.720 I was super excited because here I was being able 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.320 to work on something that was really it's it's very um, 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.640 it's very like deep difficult material, you know what I mean. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.000 But those types of roles, that type of material is 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.400 what really you know, strengthens or or sharpens your tool 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.240 as an actor, right, you really get get to work 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.120 on your chops to call it. Um. So I was 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.200 really excited to do that. But it's also you know, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.000 as exciting as it is, um, working on stuff like that, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.839 it's like a daunting test, you know what I mean. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.120 Like you just mentioned how you know authentic it is, 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.800 and that's uh, that's the really tip our hats to 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.439 the creator and the writer. Pury Hall. Now she's from Memphis, right, Um. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.000 She's also she also went to Juilliard, so she's also 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.280 like a very um. She's also she's she's it's kind 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.080 of like academic with the way she she she um 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.480 you know, writes writes her art if you will, So 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.280 She'll be the first one to tell you if you're 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:09.880 doing it wrong. And if you and if you're not 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.959 getting it, you won't you won't be there, you know 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.960 what I mean. It was it was a very difficult. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.839 I don't I mean everything is difficult when you go 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.720 in the audition room, but it was a very long 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.800 auditioning process, probably over a span of like five or 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.760 six months, maybe maybe going in the room six six, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.160 seven times. You know what, I'm working on, working on 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.560 different things here and there, you know, um, and then 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.800 to and then to get that the dialect down, you 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.520 know what I mean. Um, because even before we went 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.680 on set and we had dialect coaches, you still have 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.600 to try to go into the audition room and and 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:44.200 and still try to hit that twain and come Yeah. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.400 So coming from up top, you know, and from the northeast, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.960 like I was not. I was not well versed with that, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.160 you know what I mean. So it was it was 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.000 nice to go through the gauntlet and come out on 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.800 top because they're really like family. Now, you know, I'm 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.760 in the Valley universe now and then one and then 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.280 you have a lot of beautiful women around you, so 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.360 are they like do you have them coming at you 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.520 left and right, or because I know it happens in 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.880 real life. I see your comments and stuff like that, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.600 and the women are going crazy over you. So is 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.280 that something that you dealt with on set, like where 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.040 they were getting hitting on you here and there extra 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.040 than anything. Yeah, listen, it was. I mean it was 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:28.400 definitely very hyesthetically pleasing, you know, bunch of absolutely a 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:29.880 bunch of a bunch of beautiful women, a bunch of 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.000 beautiful people, you know, black people doing their thing. But 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.720 but I will say that, you know, everyone on the 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.280 set was was kind of like kind of like myself. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.600 I'm a very driven, focused, focused person, you see what 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.320 I'm saying. So it's like I've never really been like 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.120 a victim of the flesh like that. And I when 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.800 it comes to like getting your money and and and 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.640 like further in your dream. You see what I'm saying. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.240 I take my legacy very seriously. So when it comes to, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.760 you know, something frivolous like that, you know, I can 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.920 kind of let it, you know, run off my shoulder. Um, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.360 and everyone around was pretty much like that. It wasn't 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.680 like it isn't anything crazy. Um, we were linking up 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.000 after like you know, like to have after work drinks though, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.400 so we was all turned you know what I'm saying, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.400 were turned down there, you know what I'm saying, smoking 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.280 big drinking. It's like everybody was mad fun down there. Um. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.880 But in terms of like the extracurriculus stuff like the fraternization, 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.600 you know, everyone was really like like very professional, right. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.080 You know, do you have to understop yourself if you 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.120 feel like there is a little bit of chemistry because 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:26.880 that does happen in real life? Do you ever have 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.000 to like kind of like put a block up and 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.920 to stop yourself? You know, how do you do that? Yeah? 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.480 What's you know? It's it's um, it's a it's a 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.560 great thing you touched on because this is something they 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.680 don't teach you in the acting class. Right, is walking 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.120 that line, you know, because on one side, you want 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.000 the chemistry to be real, right, because we're portraying real 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.160 life here, we're trying to capture those moments. It's almost 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.000 like capturing lightning in the bottle, you know what I mean. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:50.800 You can't capture lightning in the bottle if you're scared 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.520 of going around the lightning, you know what I mean. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.600 But you have to you have to know how to, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.880 you know, again, compartmentalize some of that energy. It's like, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.320 you know, you want to walk to the but you 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:01.680 don't want to go over it, you know what I mean. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.920 So again, even teetering that line right there is something 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.959 that it's a skill set to be developed. So so 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.040 what is your type of woman? And are you single 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:14.240 right now? I'm not single right now? But I like them. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.240 I like them pretty in the face, sticking away though, 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:23.159 you know. But I mean that's just that's that's what 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.240 I'm drawn to, you know. I will say that I've seen, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.840 you know, I've seen a beautiful woman in every race, shape, color, size, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.800 you know what I mean. So it's like I don't 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.439 think that, you know, I don't think beauty knows any boundaries, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.680 you know. But what I'm drawn to, you know, is uh, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.200 you know, definitely a little more currly. Did you forcating 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.200 of your songs on p Valley too? By the way, 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:48.120 It's awesome. It makes sense you've got some strip club songs. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.200 for sure, I appreciate that. So they're definitely gonna be 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:56.760 on season two. Yea, But sep with Uncle Clifford for 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:02.360 it to get shout out, shout out to my boy, 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:03.720 and shout out to my boy, and you can lead 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.720 the cool Judy. But now I ain't. I ain't sleep 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:10.080 while I'm clipping for that. You know, I'm I've always 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.920 wanted to be taken seriously with my heart, no matter 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.520 what it is. You see what I'm saying. You know, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.160 I understand networking, and you know you can you can 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.159 get a favor here, and then I understand that. But 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.359 like I've always wanted to be taken seriously as an actor. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.840 You know I also and I see the same. I 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.080 want the same respect as a musician too, And I 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.359 also understand people's babies, right, Sometimes when you do something 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:30.800 for the first time, I don't know if you remember 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.000 your first you know, your first hosting gig or you know, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.600 I remember some of my first gigs. But like this 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.240 was people baby, you see what I'm saying. So she 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.679 so I just wanted to respect what she wanted to do. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.600 She had a very specific way she wanted to craft 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.119 her soundtrack, so I didn't want to be like bombarding her. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.320 I kind of wanted to, you know, garner my own 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.320 audience first. I want to drop my own stuff first. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.520 So that. It's kind of it kind of it kind 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.360 of worked organically as opposed to you know, hey, I'm 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.280 just another rapper trying to put my stuff on even 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.480 though Diamond on the show. It's like, know, I wasn't 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.120 really known yet for my music, so I wanted to drop. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:04.840 I wanted to drop more and create my own buzz 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.760 first so that you know, it was easy when I 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.800 did it. And you know, we've talked, We've talked lots 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.760 about you know, getting my music on the soundtrack, so 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.639 it's already it's a goal for season two. But I 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.000 kind of just wanted to work it that way, you know. Congratulations. Yeah, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.040 people call you Diamond because I know sometimes you get 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.000 caught in your character and that's kind of a name 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:27.520 right there, Like yeah, for sure. For sure, it was 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.200 always Benny for a long time, like all of a sudden, 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.119 Yeah for sure. And it's interesting like that. I have 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:39.040 some friends that really get upset when when their their supporters, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.439 um don't know their name, you know what I mean. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.120 I try to tell them all the time. It's like 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.120 it's like sometimes when you got when you got a hit. 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.680 It happens with music all the time too. Sometimes you 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.119 won't know the rapper, but as soon as you hear 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:51.560 the song, it's like, oh, that's you, you know what 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.840 I mean. Sometimes they just know your work first and 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.280 it's a it's a blessing to have that. So it's like, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.280 you know, someone called me Diamond. I look around answer 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.119 to the name, like what's up? Okay, that means you're 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:04.800 doing a good job. I think, like absolutely, character that's 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.280 all we see, right Mari higwach marity highway cates when 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:13.000 people call home ghosts. Yea, yeah, that hates that. And 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.480 then you know, not like being an urk. Well, of course, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.919 who would be Diamond? The way that Diamond is on 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.040 the show, he's you know what I mean, he's the 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.920 best dude on the show. To me, that's like a compliment. 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.520 I appreciate that, you know. I remember I remember, you 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:32.919 know again, just to go back to like, you know, 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:34.679 my string and failures coming from the East Coast. Man, 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.120 I just remember, you know, trying to get any job, 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:38.879 and I remember trying to do something now you know 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.000 here I was. I was gonna do this this acting thing, 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:42.439 you know what I mean. People look at me like 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.399 I was crazy, you know. So so for real, It's like, 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.920 I just remember, I'm not too far removed from a 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.280 space where no one supported me, you know what I mean. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.040 So when I have these people running up to me 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.040 here and there you want to picture or whatever you 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.240 call me whatever, it's like, you know, I see through 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.320 all of it for what it truly is, what your support. 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.679 You know. That's interesting because people will look at you 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.439 and be like, hip, are right, he's cute anyways. Right, 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:06.919 it doesn't matter because I'm sure all the time, like 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.560 growing up, you didn't have problems with women, and I'm 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.760 sure you've always been like have you always been a 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.000 popular person, because, like you said, you've had some losses. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.000 But people probably like, he'll be okay, Yeah, you know, 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.480 I went through I went through phases, you know when 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:22.840 I was growing up. When I was growing up you know, 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:24.560 in Bucks County and I was I was like the 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.240 only black kid. It was definitely I was definitely made 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.080 to feel you know. It was it was definitely like 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.880 a like a negative like ugly aesthetic type of thing, 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:34.760 you know what I mean. So I was definitely like 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.399 growing up and it was like an ugly thing. I 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.679 was like the ugly duckling. But all of a sudden, 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:41.960 I hit like high school or even like a middle school, 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.320 and like people started getting sexually active all of a sudden, 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.480 and now and then it started changing, you know what 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.720 I'm saying. Then then I was kind of like, you know, 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:51.600 kind of like what the girls liked a little bit, 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.120 even though it was new for them. You know, they're 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:54.840 never like being like a black guy or something like that, 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:56.720 you know what I mean. Um. And then I started 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:04.960 playing sports, right like yeah, yeah, like that got you 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:08.879 to see how they changed. Even when I was running 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.280 for touchdowns and now, all of a sudden, I was 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.479 like the like the popular running back, so like it 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.520 was different. So I went through phases of it. Um, 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:16.919 so it is you know, it is what it is? 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:21.520 What age did you lose your yet? Fourteen? Okay, so 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:27.160 what's so it had to be to Yeah, so no, 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:29.240 this was actually when I was in This is actually 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.040 when I went to in Vegas and it was actually 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:36.200 um um, it was actually to a junior in high school. 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.399 So it was like it was like fourteen and like 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.280 fourteen and seventeen, which at which at the time, you know, 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.040 so I'm I'm thirty three now, so thirty thirty and 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.399 thirty three is not a big deal, but seventeen and 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:53.440 fourteen a criminal? Yeah, yeah, it is. What's their names 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:57.200 that we could send the police to go lock around, 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:02.359 no name, but it was, it was, it was. It 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.000 was very premeditated. We had we had kind of planned 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:07.200 it out the night before and it was actually at 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:12.159 school underneath the bleach, not the bleachers, but like the steps. 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:14.879 We had a portion. Um, we have a portion where 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:17.320 like some of the classes were over at the college, 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:19.560 so we wouldn't go walk across the street and like 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.040 if you if you think about underneath the stairwell, it's 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.040 kind of like that that space. Yeah, like we brought 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:26.480 the blankets and like you know what I'm saying that 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.080 we had planned it all out, you know what I mean, 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:34.080 she knew what she was doing, though it was it 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:35.800 was in between school. We had like a little dead 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:39.760 like a dead dead spire. It was at lunch, so 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:43.440 you clearly did after There wasn't the hot rag after that, right, 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:48.639 there was. There wasn't nothing proper after that, you know 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:57.480 what I'm saying for your sex directed and that yes 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:00.360 I did. So I brought brought the customs, She brought 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:02.159 the towels, and actually know she brought the condoms, she 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:04.760 knew what she was doing. I brought the towels, and uh, 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:09.399 you know we were prepared, we did. She knew what 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:13.080 she wanted. Did you know that you were a virgin? No? 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:15.480 Because I definitely, you know it definitely like that J. 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:19.280 Cole song forget like I was. I was definitely you know, 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:20.960 I'm spitting my game, and you know, because I didn't 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:22.480 want to come off like you know, lame, you know 0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:23.919 what I mean. I wanted to I want to make 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:26.400 my girl feel good. And you know, um, I had 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:29.840 up a little bit. You think it was obvious. It 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:34.159 was obvious. It was obvious. Wait, so it was like 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:43.480 two seconds, like explain how second? Now? You know? I 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:47.520 just remember, Um, I remember I remember her. I remember 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:49.920 her getting getting on top, and she was like I 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:51.720 remember all of a sudden, she was gonna like take 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:53.760 control of it. You know what I'm saying. She she 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:55.879 she got on top, she started doing a thing, and 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:58.960 you know what I'm saying, it was a few minutes. 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:00.720 It was a few minutes. You I'm saying, my rhythm 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:06.879 is off. Though you probably was. You probably didn't even 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:08.800 have it in. It was probably in between her guys, 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:12.440 one of the best tell us your virgin story and 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:16.800 the services. We ate a lot of people that question, 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:22.679 and this is like this I probably should have a lie. 0:25:22.680 --> 0:25:25.720 I'm keeping it two reel with y'all. Did you again? 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.720 Did you? So? Yeah, I did get a second chance. 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:32.040 It was much better the second time. But you guys 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.560 in the bed the second time, Yes, we were, Um, 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:37.480 we were in the house, so we weren't on the bed, 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:38.880 but we were like, you know, we're on the couch 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:41.840 floor area kind of bounced back before um, but then 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:46.080 it was then she was a little she was a 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:48.320 little promiscuous, so she was bouncing around after that. So 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:52.359 she kind of so she was no. I remember she 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:53.960 went to like she went to a upper classroom, so 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:55.919 she was junior. She started messing around with a senior. Now, 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:58.159 so it's like fourteen compared to eighteen. I didn't have 0:25:58.200 --> 0:25:59.560 no shot. He had a car, and every day I 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:04.000 thought she was interesting. You know what's interesting though, once 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:08.880 I hit that TV she called me up. Yeah, hey, 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:11.040 big head. This is like, this is like ten years 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.240 later now, so we're both like big out of high school. Um, 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:16.720 you know, I graduated from college, but you know, It's interesting. 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:21.720 It's interesting how relationships always continue to redefine themselves, you 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:32.119 know again ten years later, be honest, No, no, I 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:34.680 did I honestly, honestly, Now she can't, she can't, no, 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:36.679 she can't do that right now, she's Uh. Guys have 0:26:36.720 --> 0:26:40.919 been what they're doing. They're so vindictive. They'll try to 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:43.840 like make you fall in love with them to get 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:46.720 back for the hurt that you're calling them from years ago. 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:50.200 You know, you know, guys always and I ain't gonna 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:53.479 snitch on my guys, but I'll talk about myself, you know, 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:55.760 I always try to. You know, we try to play 0:26:55.760 --> 0:26:57.960 off that that you know, that first puppy love like 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:00.600 it ain't nothing, because truly, in the grands scheme of things, 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:02.840 you know, it's it's really nothing. But you know, if 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.040 you if you take that moment for what it is, 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:07.720 you know, it kind of redefines the way you have 0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:10.640 an outlook on life or even relationships. So it does 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:15.280 it does have an impact, you know, significant exactly, even 0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:17.359 though we don't may not think about the individual, you 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:20.800 know that experience is significant. I just picture you in 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:23.800 the hallway against the locker, looking down while she's with 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:29.119 another guy, no beer, Yeah, no beard, no, Jerry Curl said, 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:33.960 j get the little one. You probably with scrawny. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:36.520 big scrawny back then. Yeah, for sure. I'm trying to 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:39.840 figure out how I'm trying to figure out how she 0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:42.000 got your number ten years later, child, because I know 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:47.199 what the same that it was. Yeah, she hit me 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:51.720 on I think it was like Facebook. It was Facebook. 0:27:51.800 --> 0:27:54.919 You already know. How How does she look? How does 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:58.520 she look now though, compared to high school? Not the same. Yeah, 0:27:58.560 --> 0:27:59.960 we're just gonna say that you don't look the same. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:03.760 But um, you know, but you know, uh, like life happens, 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:07.639 and like stresses real and circumstances happen, and you know, 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:10.440 people's outlook and perspectives change. So I just see her 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:12.680 differently now. She was like just calling to tell you 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:14.520 you got a ten year old son and you need 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:24.080 to take it. Did you did you practice putting on 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:27.000 a condom before the first time? You actually you know 0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:30.240 what I did, But I didn't know. I didn't. I 0:28:30.320 --> 0:28:32.560 kind of just, um, I don't even think i'd had 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:36.480 like seen one out of the wrapper. Um, And this 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:38.280 is crazy. I didn't even really thought about this experience 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:40.320 to this conversation. So I'm like, I'm kind of reliving 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.840 it right now. Um I was. I was definitely on 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:49.240 the fly with it for sure. Um, she definitely definitely, no, No, 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:51.680 she definitely helped. Yeah, she definitely helped me out. You 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:55.360 know what I'm saying. She was like, oh, the little version, 0:28:55.520 --> 0:28:58.160 he doesn't even know how to put a condom on. Yeah, 0:28:58.200 --> 0:28:59.920 but she made she made sure she put it on 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:02.800 and she jumped on though. So it got me right, 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:06.360 jump on that horse. You gotta riding, Yeah, she was riding. 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:09.280 She was doing thing. Is that your favorite position now 0:29:09.360 --> 0:29:11.200 to the day, to have a girl on top? Because 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:13.640 that was like your first real experience. I like, how 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:15.600 how does it work for you? You know? I'm like, 0:29:15.960 --> 0:29:19.200 I'm very much like a like like a dancer when 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:21.280 it comes to it. I like to communicate, you know, verbally, 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:24.920 but I'm also listening to so I'm I'm definitely you know, 0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:28.520 I'm definitely hitting from the back for sure. But yeah, 0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:29.920 I need I need to see that ass move, you 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:35.080 know what. Definitely. Um, you know, uh, you know, my 0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:38.040 my my girls, my girls very pretty in the face now. Um, 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:40.280 so you know, I like, because there's times I gotta 0:29:40.280 --> 0:29:43.360 flip back over. I gotta I gotta look at I 0:29:43.440 --> 0:29:44.800 gotta look at the face like I you know, I 0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:47.080 gotta use my mama tyler. Were there times that you 0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:49.920 had women you didn't want to look at their face? Oh? Yeah, 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:54.160 for sure. Yeah I'll turn around, you know. So it's like, 0:29:54.240 --> 0:29:56.160 you know, you gotta I forget what I was reading. 0:29:56.200 --> 0:29:58.720 I think, you know, these memes pop across your time 0:29:58.880 --> 0:30:01.080 time about all the time. And someone had said, like, 0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:03.920 you know, would you prefer like a you know, a 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:05.520 six in the face and the turn in the body 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:07.840 or a real pretty face and like, you know, like 0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:10.360 a bad build body. So I've definitely had that you know, 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:12.120 five in the face, you know what I'm saying, with 0:30:12.120 --> 0:30:14.280 a nice booty and uh, you know, you just make 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:15.800 it do it to do you know, hit the lights, 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:21.520 turn the lights, turn turn it over something, turn around. 0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:28.680 But I find, uh, you know, I find I find 0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:31.760 lots of different characteristics about a woman sexy too. So 0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:33.600 even if you don't got it all together in the face, 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:35.760 it's like, you know, there's there's lots of things about 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:37.760 a woman that that get me right, turn me on. 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:39.760 So you know you're you're smelling good, your head is 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:41.320 looking nice. You know what I'm saying. You're doing your thing. 0:30:41.360 --> 0:30:42.920 It's uh, you know what I'm saying, we get faster. 0:30:45.320 --> 0:30:47.320 Have you ever had a woman tricker? Have you ever 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:49.120 had a woman trick on you when you were younger? 0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:51.400 Like what you mean by like what you mean? Trick 0:30:51.440 --> 0:30:56.880 on me? Things? Trick on me? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:59.400 for sure. Um. Not not when I was like young, young, 0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:02.760 but when I started getting um. I remember my girlfriend 0:31:02.760 --> 0:31:04.320 in high school was checking on me a little bit. 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:05.720 But then you know what it was when I got 0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:08.520 to l A. When I got to l A, um, 0:31:09.200 --> 0:31:12.400 I like I was introduced to even before l A, 0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:14.240 but like once I graduated in high school, I was 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:15.920 introduced to the cougars, you know what I mean. And 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:22.960 the Cougars were like, for sure tricking on me, you know, 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:26.000 not then coogers. But I remember, well, we don't have 0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:28.200 to go into the specifics, but yeah, I've definitely had 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:30.440 you know what I'm saying, been a part of that, 0:31:30.680 --> 0:31:32.240 And it's like you gotta be you gotta be careful though. 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:33.960 It's like when you received and I'm sure maybe your 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:35.880 ladies go through this too, or if you have or not, 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:38.400 I'm not sure, but like you know, when you're receiving gifts, 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:40.960 you know what I'm saying, without anything in return, you 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:42.880 know they're going to be expecting something. So I was 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:46.040 a part of a scenario where she was giving me stuff, 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:48.240 and all of a sudden she broke it to me 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:50.720 she wanted she wanted me to show up with her 0:31:51.280 --> 0:31:54.960 at like her like ex husbands like whatever. And I 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.640 had realized that, Yeah, I had realized that her ex 0:31:57.720 --> 0:32:00.440 husband was like, he was someone that was going to 0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:02.760 try to protect his space, if you understand what I'm saying. 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:04.320 And so it was like she was using me like 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:06.360 a pam, you know what I'm saying, And I thank 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:08.760 thankfully I was smart enough to understand and said, hey, 0:32:08.800 --> 0:32:10.360 you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do this 0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:12.960 anymore because you know, if you put me in that scenario, 0:32:13.040 --> 0:32:14.920 I'm gonna be forced to defend myself. And now you've 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:17.200 got two men going crazy at each other, you know. 0:32:17.280 --> 0:32:19.680 So it's like whether they're expecting that or whether it's 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:23.160 or you know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah, he's like 0:32:23.200 --> 0:32:27.800 I gotta fight every night to prove my love. Yeah. Sure, 0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:31.840 I wasn't knowing that. So I you know, one thing 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:34.880 that came to my attention. You had a video that circulated. 0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:37.040 You had an interview where basically I think they asked 0:32:37.040 --> 0:32:40.400 you about going fifty fifty on a date and your 0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:43.560 response I really like, So I want to ask you 0:32:43.640 --> 0:32:46.880 what if a woman did sit down with a man 0:32:47.040 --> 0:32:50.200 and he was like, hey, um, here's my half. What 0:32:50.280 --> 0:32:53.800 you're gonna do? What should she do? M hm? You 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:55.960 know it's gonna be different from from woman to a woman. 0:32:56.080 --> 0:32:58.360 You know, It's it's like it's it's not one of 0:32:58.360 --> 0:33:01.160 those answers where one size it's all, you know what 0:33:01.200 --> 0:33:03.640 I mean? I think if the woman, if the woman 0:33:03.680 --> 0:33:06.600 has in her head where let's let's say, for instance, 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:08.840 she was raised in a household where she was taught 0:33:09.200 --> 0:33:11.800 that women aren't supposed to pay any bills, you know 0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:13.960 what I mean, your daddy, Your daddy teaches you that, 0:33:13.960 --> 0:33:15.320 you know, I'm always gonna take care of you, and 0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:17.160 I take care of your mother, and you know, a 0:33:17.160 --> 0:33:19.120 man that's dead and you should do the same. Right 0:33:19.120 --> 0:33:21.160 and she's put in this scenario that you just presented 0:33:21.560 --> 0:33:24.000 and the man says, hey, here's fifty, where's your fifty? 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:26.320 You know, if if she's about her morals and she 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:28.200 doesn't want to do that. She has every right to say, 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:33.120 you know, I'm gonna pass on this, know, but I 0:33:33.160 --> 0:33:40.560 think that's funny to say, like I'm gonna pass on that. Yeah, yeah, 0:33:40.920 --> 0:33:48.360 what if you did say, I'm enjoy love when it's 0:33:48.360 --> 0:33:49.800 like on the flip side, you know, and and a 0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:52.200 and a practice and a practical. Um. You know, if 0:33:52.240 --> 0:33:53.560 we if we look on the other side of the 0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:56.360 point and we say, um, you know we're gonna be 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:58.960 in this fifty fifty um, you know it's you know, 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.840 it's gonna be a true uh, both feed in the relationship. 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:03.760 We're gonna give and take. You know, we're just gonna 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:06.840 be a true fifty fifty relationship. And and and you're 0:34:06.880 --> 0:34:08.759 okay with that. You know, you have every right to 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:10.600 go ahead and accept that. And you said, okay, baby, 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:12.560 here's my fifty and let's let's run it up like that. 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:15.680 But not on the first day. Not not on the 0:34:15.680 --> 0:34:19.320 first date though it's not I think you ever asked 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:21.520 the person on a date is supposed to pay, Like 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:24.200 if I ask you, like, hey, this is I think 0:34:24.200 --> 0:34:26.800 the guy is always supposed to pay? It depends. But 0:34:26.840 --> 0:34:28.879 if you ask a guy out and you're like, hey, 0:34:28.960 --> 0:34:30.960 I want to take you out, Like I mean, if 0:34:30.960 --> 0:34:34.319 it's a birthday, yes, If you say I want to 0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:37.160 take you out and here's and you set up everything, 0:34:37.280 --> 0:34:39.120 then I do feel like you should at least offer 0:34:39.160 --> 0:34:40.759 to pay because it was all your idea. I'm not 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:43.000 gonna be like, I'm gonna take you out, now pay 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.359 for me now. I was just gonna say, like I've 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.120 done that before where I'm like, okay, let's go out, 0:34:48.560 --> 0:34:51.160 and then the guy would be like, you're not paying 0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:53.319 this bill and we're like damn, they're trying to fight 0:34:53.400 --> 0:34:56.080 me to snatch with just fine, which is fine, But 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:57.840 I do think you should offer. Now. If you're in 0:34:57.880 --> 0:34:59.920 a relationship and you're like, let's go to the movie 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:02.800 is then it's just whatever whoever decides it. No, I 0:35:02.800 --> 0:35:04.680 got it this time, it doesn't matter. But I feel 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:07.040 like on a first date, if you ask somebody on 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:09.760 a date, that's who pays, right, because it's your idea. 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:12.279 You're coming up with the whole plan. I'm asking you 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:14.839 to go somewhere. Imagine somebody asked you to do something 0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:17.279 and then make you pay for it. Yeah, for sure, 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:19.480 I think I think if we're talking about you know, 0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:22.080 a date, um, the first date, we're gonna be specific 0:35:22.120 --> 0:35:24.239 with that. And again not not to go back to 0:35:24.239 --> 0:35:26.279 an interview, but like you know, I'm just I'm just uh, 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:28.640 I'm just an old school person, you know what I mean. 0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:30.719 And and I'm just I'm gonna take care of it. 0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:32.640 That's just the type of way. That's type of person 0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:34.600 I am. Um, And I think that I think that 0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:37.319 it should be like that. You know, women and women man, y'all, 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:38.960 y'all give us a lot, you know what I mean, 0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:42.200 And it's unfortunate that I feel like most people don't 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:44.440 give you the credit that you deserve. But like you know, 0:35:44.480 --> 0:35:46.720 if if I were to give a woman a seed, 0:35:47.200 --> 0:35:50.239 you know, she she turns it into Yeah, I like that. 0:35:51.320 --> 0:35:52.960 You know, if I want to give a woman, you 0:35:52.960 --> 0:35:55.239 know my you know, my offspring might see, she she 0:35:55.320 --> 0:35:57.960 literally grows it into a into a human, to a child. 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:00.160 You know, if I buy the house, she's gonna date 0:36:00.200 --> 0:36:03.800 it into a really elevate us. You see what I'm saying. 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:05.520 So you know, the least I can do is go 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:07.080 ahead and pick up you know, I'm saying, pick up 0:36:07.080 --> 0:36:09.319 the food tab. It's really not a big deal. So, um, 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:12.360 you know I'm I uh, you know, I root for 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:14.680 you know, men like myself to keep shivalry allied. Everyone 0:36:14.680 --> 0:36:16.480 always says, should where his dad? Sho where his dead? 0:36:16.640 --> 0:36:18.320 That don't go out and be you know, get played 0:36:18.360 --> 0:36:20.600 and just get trampled all over. But you know you 0:36:20.600 --> 0:36:23.160 shouldn't be You shouldn't be afraid to try to provide, 0:36:23.440 --> 0:36:25.040 to try to go ahead and pick that tab up. 0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:27.400 It's really not a big deal. Now, I have to 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:29.400 be honest, I've never asked anyone in the date, so 0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:33.040 I have to never had to be in this. Have 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:35.560 you guys ever asked anybody on a date? Lorial gig? 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:37.320 Have you ever asked a guy on a date? You 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:40.239 know my boyfriend like somebody that I was with, and 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:44.399 it's more so like let's go out first date. No, 0:36:44.800 --> 0:36:47.280 I'm definitely, like I said, in a relationship, I definitely 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:50.200 really been like, let me go out today. And again 0:36:50.320 --> 0:36:52.759 he still wouldn't let me pay. No matter what we ate, 0:36:52.800 --> 0:36:54.799 he acts like he was gonna let me pay, and 0:36:54.840 --> 0:36:56.880 then he like walked to the bathroom and paid, and 0:36:56.880 --> 0:37:00.120 I was like like this, bet you know, what do 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:02.160 y'all fel what do y'all feel about the woman proposing 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:06.400 for marriage. I wouldn't do that either. Yeah, I mean, 0:37:06.440 --> 0:37:09.839 I don't knock anyone. I don't knock anyone. I think 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:13.000 it's a new day and age, and sometimes they're stay 0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:15.000 at home dad's now you know what I mean, and 0:37:15.040 --> 0:37:18.120 the woman goes to work. So but me, personally, I 0:37:18.120 --> 0:37:20.680 would want somebody to propose to me. I wouldn't want to. 0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:24.319 I would feel like I'm not forcing, but I feel like, 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:27.120 what guys really gonna say? No, it's gonna make it no. 0:37:27.320 --> 0:37:29.719 That's my question. You're in a relationship. If your woman 0:37:29.840 --> 0:37:31.720 was to propose to you right now, would you accept 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:39.080 the proposal? How don't? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:40.839 mean to laugh all out like that. It's just like 0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:46.400 he is. Just yesterday my girlfriend proposed to me. But 0:37:46.520 --> 0:37:48.279 you know, you're asking it back to me, makes it 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:49.880 real all of a sudden. So now I'm like putting 0:37:49.880 --> 0:37:53.920 myself in it. Um, you know, there's two there's two scenarios, 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:56.200 just like so. So first of all, I don't I 0:37:56.200 --> 0:37:57.920 don't know if marriage is for me. Me and my 0:37:57.920 --> 0:38:00.200 girlfriend talked about the offense, so I don't know if 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:01.759 I'm I don't. I don't know if I'm gonna get 0:38:01.760 --> 0:38:05.080 married in like period. Uh, but if I'm in this scenario, 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:07.680 I'm definitely gonna be the one getting on the name. Now, 0:38:07.760 --> 0:38:09.600 if we are in a blue moon, you know, the 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:12.000 world turned on its head, and now my girl gets 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:16.359 on one knee and proposes. Uh then which I which 0:38:16.360 --> 0:38:20.480 is one of my favorite beers. By the way, But 0:38:20.760 --> 0:38:25.080 I think that if I think if we were alone, um, 0:38:25.120 --> 0:38:27.680 in in whatever way, in whatever way I could that 0:38:27.719 --> 0:38:29.000 came to me in the moment, I would try to 0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:31.920 articulate that I want to be the one to propose 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:34.160 to you. So it's not like I'm saying no, but 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:36.160 allowing me to be the one that does this allow 0:38:36.239 --> 0:38:38.600 me to do this the right way. UM, I think 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:40.279 it would be important if I was gonna say yes, 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:42.719 to articulate that I do want to get married. It's 0:38:42.719 --> 0:38:45.200 not like I'm saying, you know no, but it's just 0:38:45.239 --> 0:38:46.960 that I want to do this the right way, the 0:38:46.960 --> 0:38:49.920 way that I see it going down. Um. And now 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:57.880 I don't think take that you know what it is. 0:38:57.920 --> 0:38:59.759 I just I just feel I feel I just feel 0:38:59.840 --> 0:39:01.440 we you're like, um, you know what I'm saying, I'm 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:03.520 married to check it out. You for that, and I'm like, yeah, 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:21.279 like that's just don't don't know, and the like I 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:23.200 was just preferred to be the other way around, that's 0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:26.839 all anybody who does that and I mistaken. All your 0:39:26.880 --> 0:39:31.200 parents have been together, they're still married, correct? Yeah, yes, 0:39:31.280 --> 0:39:33.319 so my parents are still together. It's been Um, I've 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:37.600 been married for I was four when they got married. Um, 0:39:37.800 --> 0:39:40.400 so it's my mother and my and my stepfather. I 0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:43.600 only I don't call him that, call my dad. He 0:39:43.800 --> 0:39:45.759 raised me. Yeah, he's had me even since I was 0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:47.680 like three. You know, they were together for a while 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:50.759 and then they definitely your dad, yeah for sure, but 0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:53.040 just for descriptive purposes, like you know, I'm just just 0:39:53.120 --> 0:39:55.320 calling it out. So you know, my mom and my 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:58.120 dad been married for Um so I'm thirty three, so 0:39:58.160 --> 0:40:01.000 twenty nine years now, W have a I have a 0:40:01.040 --> 0:40:02.880 great and then if they still leave each other, you know, 0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:05.640 little notes on you know, on the magnet on the fridge. 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:08.520 So I have a really great I have a really 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:11.680 great example of what it's supposed to look like. Yeah, 0:40:11.760 --> 0:40:15.320 well there's some things that you do in your relationship. Um, 0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:17.879 you know, you always got to making that effort. Yeah, 0:40:17.880 --> 0:40:20.319 not for sure, I think, Um, you know, there are 0:40:20.320 --> 0:40:23.080 certain things that um that are like you know planned. 0:40:23.200 --> 0:40:25.040 I try to make sure that, you know, we have 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:26.960 date night often. You know, we don't just get caught 0:40:27.000 --> 0:40:28.279 up to work because I work a lot and she 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:30.880 works a lot. Um, so it's easy. It's easy to 0:40:30.920 --> 0:40:32.880 just get It's easy to have your date night be 0:40:32.920 --> 0:40:34.680 a premier or something like that, or to have it 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:37.120 be like amongst a lot of other people going out 0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:38.919 pop and bottles or something like that. We're having fun. 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:40.880 But it's like, you know, I try to always carve 0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:43.120 out um, you know, intimate time for us. You know 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:45.759 what I'm saying. Um, you know, whether it's whether it's 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:47.759 something as simple as going to the movies or you know, 0:40:47.920 --> 0:40:49.719 you know, picking out her favorite restaurant or you know 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:51.960 what I'm saying. Maybe maybe you know, written the boat 0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:53.840 for a day or doing something on the water. But 0:40:53.880 --> 0:40:56.840 there's also things, um, you know, things that happen in 0:40:56.880 --> 0:40:59.520 the spur of the moment. You know, my my girl 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:02.160 is a uh, it's a very cerebral person. So there's 0:41:02.160 --> 0:41:04.360 certain conversations that I always make sure that we have, 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:06.839 um that I feel like she's not having anywhere else 0:41:06.840 --> 0:41:10.040 in life that she wants to touch on. Um. So she's, uh, 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:13.400 we're very much really call it like like sato sexuals 0:41:13.400 --> 0:41:16.360 also right and like you get on by the mind. Right. 0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:20.040 So there's there's there's all over the spectrum certain things 0:41:20.080 --> 0:41:21.560 that I do you know that makes you I beat 0:41:21.560 --> 0:41:25.239 it down, right, you hear me? You know I sent you. 0:41:27.360 --> 0:41:31.440 He's like, I'm serious, sent Do you ever have tantric sex? 0:41:32.080 --> 0:41:36.440 Tantric sex enlightening? Yeah, you don't know us about this. 0:41:36.520 --> 0:41:41.080 We did have a clubhouse about it. Yeah, pantric sex. 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:45.440 That involves a lot of breathing and closeness without touching, 0:41:45.800 --> 0:41:49.040 And it's when you feel each other's sexual energies without 0:41:49.080 --> 0:41:52.200 actually touching each other, and it brings you to orgasm 0:41:52.239 --> 0:41:55.759 if you do it right. Um. So our orgasms are 0:41:55.800 --> 0:42:00.399 always like hands on, um, but our organs the stuff 0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:08.680 from But you know, but I can't I can't say that. Um, 0:42:09.040 --> 0:42:11.080 I can't say that, Like, you know, we take that 0:42:11.160 --> 0:42:14.000 step very seriously though, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:17.080 that that part is not glossed over, it's not brushed over. 0:42:17.520 --> 0:42:19.600 And I can say that, like you know, younger in 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:21.759 my life it was it was a space that was 0:42:22.000 --> 0:42:25.000 brushed over, you know what I'm saying, Like even after um, 0:42:25.040 --> 0:42:26.839 you know, even after my experience you know that I 0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:28.960 told you about when I was fourteen, Like even even 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:31.080 like young twenties, it's like, you know, you're so worried 0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:33.440 about getting in there, getting to action that like you know, 0:42:33.440 --> 0:42:35.560 you're glossing over some of the most some of the 0:42:35.600 --> 0:42:38.560 most important you know, intimate parts, you know what I mean. 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:41.319 He's really and I had to you know, I had 0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:43.520 to learn that there's you know, just over my experience 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:45.200 in life. I had to learn there's a big difference 0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:48.200 between like men and women. You know what I'm saying, 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:51.160 How we get there if you will, um, and like 0:42:51.360 --> 0:42:53.480 and like for a man, you know, a man can 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:55.400 were very simple, you know what I'm saying. You were, 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:58.360 you were in the right dress, We're ready to go, 0:42:58.400 --> 0:43:01.480 and it is there. Um and you know you know 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:05.880 y'all uh all the time. Yeah, And y'all have enlightened 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:09.399 me and you know, UM helped me understand that there's 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:11.520 a whole other side to it. Even even right now, 0:43:11.520 --> 0:43:12.759 you guys are putting me on a game right now, 0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:14.640 because I didn't know that it had a term for it. 0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:21.640 What's it called? Again? And yeah, how did you and 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:24.480 your girlfriend? Did you approach her? Did she approach you? 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:29.879 She approached me? Um, she approached me. Yeah, she might 0:43:29.920 --> 0:43:38.960 be playing it proposal now coming. I have to tell 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:45.960 her not to watch this and get any idea. She's 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:48.000 a very she's a very direct one she wants to be. 0:43:48.440 --> 0:43:51.960 But um, she's she's she's not really she's not really 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:55.040 liked that. Um she approached me, I mean at least 0:43:55.080 --> 0:43:56.560 not at least not from what I know, you know 0:43:56.560 --> 0:43:58.480 what I mean. But this day she was and she 0:43:58.600 --> 0:44:00.640 and she um, and it was thing like she came 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:02.319 and said, hey, listen, I want to funk. It wasn't 0:44:02.360 --> 0:44:04.319 like that, but it was like, you know, she she 0:44:04.440 --> 0:44:06.279 made her way over and made it a point to come, 0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:09.160 you know, initiate the conversation, you know, and from there, 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:11.320 you know, I take it from there. But that initial, 0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:16.440 you know, opening up the door was But how did 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:18.840 you move from the space stuff being like just talking 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:23.200 to being in a committed relationship. So we went through, uh, 0:44:23.280 --> 0:44:25.920 a long period of time when we were friends. So 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:30.000 she approached me. We went on a couple of dates. Uh, 0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:32.680 you know, we were intimate with each other. Um, and 0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:35.479 developed a friendship that lasted for a long time because 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:38.200 we worked we worked in the same industry, so it 0:44:38.280 --> 0:44:40.080 was like we were just always we were around each 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:43.800 other a lot, and and it just organically developed into 0:44:43.800 --> 0:44:46.239 a place where you know, I was I was really 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:47.719 the one I keep it real. I was the one 0:44:47.880 --> 0:44:50.000 that kind of just I have these epiphanies a lot 0:44:50.040 --> 0:44:51.560 of time in life, A lot of times in life, 0:44:51.560 --> 0:44:52.920 you know. I had one on the East Coast. I said, 0:44:52.920 --> 0:44:54.719 you know what, Tayland, it's time to move. It's not 0:44:54.760 --> 0:44:56.239 for me anymore. You know what I'm saying. I want 0:44:56.280 --> 0:44:58.760 I want something different. Um. So I had another epiphany, 0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:01.280 I said, Um, I kind of all of a sudden 0:45:01.320 --> 0:45:05.000 started I don't know if it's good or bad, but uh, 0:45:05.080 --> 0:45:07.800 I started thinking about like if I were to you know, 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.279 because she was she was easily accessible to me. I 0:45:10.280 --> 0:45:12.279 could reach out and and have her if I wanted to. 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:14.480 And I think because of that, I was taking I 0:45:14.520 --> 0:45:16.839 was taking her for granted. And I kind of had 0:45:16.880 --> 0:45:18.759 this epiphany where I was like, man, I was like, 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:21.040 this is she's She's like someone that like I want 0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:23.200 to be with, and I don't know what I would 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:25.160 do if I if I went away. You know, I work, 0:45:25.280 --> 0:45:29.279 I work on you know, away often, so um, you know, 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:31.239 I'm I'm in Atlanta five months out of the year. 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:33.000 I got a new show on Amazon coming out where 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:35.120 I'm shooting in New York. Uh, five months out of 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:36.960 the year. So it's like, I would hate if I 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:38.719 came back and she's brewed up with somebody else, you 0:45:38.719 --> 0:45:41.160 know what I'm saying. It would hit me different if 0:45:41.239 --> 0:45:42.880 like I've seen her on someone else's arm. So it's 0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:44.640 not like it was a territorial thing, like I just 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:46.279 don't want no one else to have you. I had 0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:48.120 just realized that I want to have you, you know 0:45:48.120 --> 0:45:49.759 what I'm saying, So I want to At this time, 0:45:49.760 --> 0:45:51.880 I was direct and I said, you know, you know 0:45:51.960 --> 0:45:53.560 I want to be with you. Let's be with each other, 0:45:53.800 --> 0:45:56.120 you know, and in different words, but that was the message. 0:45:57.400 --> 0:46:00.840 What about kids? You said, no marriage, But what about kids? 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:14.680 We have a child together? You yeah, girl, I have 0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:17.920 a son. I have a son. So listen, do you 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:20.640 think that it's good to keep things private and that's 0:46:20.640 --> 0:46:23.440 why your relationship lasts? Yeah? Yeah, And I think I 0:46:23.440 --> 0:46:26.200 think you chose the correct word. People often talk about like, 0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:27.480 you know, so why do you keep it a secret. 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:30.760 It's not saying it's like if it was a secret, 0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:33.800 I would have just lied to you right there. Um, 0:46:33.840 --> 0:46:36.719 But it's like, you know, it's I've found that you know, 0:46:37.480 --> 0:46:39.920 working in a public space. You know what I do 0:46:40.000 --> 0:46:42.040 for a living, and any ladies know, you know, well 0:46:42.200 --> 0:46:44.080 what we're doing right now. This is work right now, 0:46:44.239 --> 0:46:46.400 but this is going to be broadcasting to everyone, right 0:46:46.400 --> 0:46:49.080 So we work in this public space. And when you 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:51.400 work in this public space, you know, you end up 0:46:51.400 --> 0:46:53.719 having extracurriculars that are in the public space. And if 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:57.160 you look at the whole spectrum, you know, like your 0:46:57.239 --> 0:47:00.360 your your life has lived out where people are watching you, 0:47:00.360 --> 0:47:03.320 you know what I mean. So I've I've I've understood 0:47:03.360 --> 0:47:05.680 for a long time and I've experienced this that having 0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:10.200 having a space that's private is very beneficial and really 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:13.359 helps to be able to unplug, you know, for me, 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:16.279 especially as you know, especially as a black man, you know, 0:47:16.320 --> 0:47:18.160 to go into the world. The last thing that I 0:47:18.239 --> 0:47:20.600 want from being at war with the world every single 0:47:20.680 --> 0:47:23.560 day is to come home for around two you see 0:47:23.560 --> 0:47:25.560 them saying I like to have calm waters at home 0:47:25.880 --> 0:47:28.000 and uh, and I think I think being private helps 0:47:28.040 --> 0:47:31.919 that and uh, you know, I gotta my girlfriend understands that. Um. 0:47:32.000 --> 0:47:34.200 And so it's just it's just a great fit. You've 0:47:34.239 --> 0:47:36.400 had girlfriends in the past that didn't understand that, and 0:47:36.440 --> 0:47:38.399 they want to They want everything to be public. They'll 0:47:38.440 --> 0:47:41.480 understand why we can't publicize everything. And you won't see 0:47:41.480 --> 0:47:44.320 my kids. You won't see my kids on my i G. Yeah, exactly, 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:45.600 And you won't see my kid on my i G 0:47:45.719 --> 0:47:47.000 the same way you want to see like my parents 0:47:47.040 --> 0:47:48.799 and my I G. I just want to keep um. 0:47:48.840 --> 0:47:52.680 I've chosen to keep the my private life private and 0:47:52.680 --> 0:47:54.920 and everything else. Like we can we can talk and 0:47:54.960 --> 0:47:56.919 we can chat and I talked people for my i G. 0:47:57.000 --> 0:47:58.640 And it's like we can we can do all that 0:47:58.719 --> 0:48:01.279 over here in this space. You know. I feel that 0:48:01.360 --> 0:48:03.520 and I respected. And that's what makes people come up 0:48:03.560 --> 0:48:06.640 with like all their own stories that they create. You know, 0:48:07.239 --> 0:48:09.120 I saw they were trying to say that you were gay, 0:48:09.520 --> 0:48:14.040 and I was like, well, really, I didn't see that. Yeah, 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:15.960 I didn't see it, but it's like, you know, they 0:48:16.120 --> 0:48:18.400 they you know, I remember when I first I remember 0:48:18.440 --> 0:48:22.000 I first started out. I was seeing it here and 0:48:22.040 --> 0:48:27.640 there UM for forward forwardever reason people were associating with UM, 0:48:27.680 --> 0:48:29.600 Like my first show, I came out on the Tyler 0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.920 Perry Show, and like, for for whatever reason, he gets 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:33.520 a wrap like that. And I know, Tyler person, he's 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:35.200 not gay, you know what I'm saying. But it's like, 0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:36.600 you know, being I was, you know, I was seeing 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:37.960 around him and all of a sudden it was just 0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:39.719 rubbing off on me and people thought like I was 0:48:39.760 --> 0:48:41.839 gay or something like that. And then I remember, Um, 0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:43.040 I had taken it. I don't know if I had 0:48:43.040 --> 0:48:45.200 taken a I don't know, I don't know what it was, 0:48:45.239 --> 0:48:46.640 but I done something. I was on the set of 0:48:46.680 --> 0:48:49.719 Peas Valley and uh, maybe I was a Clifford. I 0:48:49.760 --> 0:48:51.160 was like maybe. I think I was taking a picture 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:54.279 of Alphands who plays a little murder and um, and 0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:56.200 people started off with the gay thing again. I think, 0:48:56.239 --> 0:48:57.840 like I think, if you have a space like you 0:48:57.880 --> 0:48:59.640 were saying, Angel, if you have a space that people 0:48:59.680 --> 0:49:02.799 can't figure out, they may just tackle whatever they can. 0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:05.080 They can just create a judgment, you know what I mean. 0:49:05.840 --> 0:49:09.239 I will say Perry. My thing about Tyler Perry, I 0:49:09.280 --> 0:49:11.319 never think that he's gay. He just knows how to 0:49:11.320 --> 0:49:14.840 pick a fine man to cast in his shows, and 0:49:15.200 --> 0:49:17.640 if he don't pick the most nice looking guys, like 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:19.200 an array of them, and I'd be like, where the 0:49:19.200 --> 0:49:21.319 hell did he find them at? I want to hang 0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:24.120 out with Tyler. Perry's tact all of it. He got 0:49:24.120 --> 0:49:27.080 all of fine man. That's why people think that because 0:49:27.080 --> 0:49:29.239 he has a good eye for looks as well. I 0:49:29.280 --> 0:49:32.760 think maybe that's what I mean. And he plays media 0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:37.080 so well. People can't get over the fact that he's 0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:44.920 a woman so well. He does because I I think 0:49:45.040 --> 0:49:47.600 media coming back, that's just had to pause up for 0:49:47.600 --> 0:49:49.480 a little bit and then show come out. Then you're 0:49:49.480 --> 0:49:53.880 gonna make a return, you know, as a Tyler, as 0:49:53.920 --> 0:49:56.200 a black man and as an actor playing the role 0:49:56.239 --> 0:49:58.120 of a woman. Is that's something that you wouldn't do? 0:49:58.400 --> 0:50:01.480 You know, because I've heard both sides like whatever the 0:50:01.560 --> 0:50:03.080 road calls for, and then I've heard people say I 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:05.960 wouldn't do that. You know. It's interesting when you get 0:50:06.000 --> 0:50:08.680 into these questions as an Actor's another thing they won't 0:50:08.680 --> 0:50:10.799 teach you in an acting class. Having class is just 0:50:10.880 --> 0:50:14.319 seen study. It's very like basic even though it's necessary. Um. 0:50:14.560 --> 0:50:16.359 This other side that we're touching on, right Now it's 0:50:16.360 --> 0:50:18.880 something that only comes with experience. It only comes with 0:50:18.920 --> 0:50:21.600 like making decisions. So when you get into this this 0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:24.760 uh this realm or you're booking stuff, you you get 0:50:24.800 --> 0:50:27.640 presented with these options, you know, do you wanna do 0:50:27.719 --> 0:50:29.440 you want to play? And the question is always do 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:32.359 you want to play something that you aren't in real life? Right? 0:50:32.400 --> 0:50:34.720 Some people have a problem with playing playing a woman. 0:50:35.000 --> 0:50:37.239 Some people have a problem with playing gay. Some people 0:50:37.280 --> 0:50:39.840 have a problem with playing a rapist or playing you know, 0:50:39.880 --> 0:50:42.719 an abuser or whatever it is, right, getting into these 0:50:42.719 --> 0:50:47.200 circumstances that aren't normally yours. So when you're doing that again, 0:50:47.280 --> 0:50:49.480 it's it goes back to like, what what is it 0:50:49.520 --> 0:50:53.200 that you want to do? You know? So for me, like, uh, 0:50:53.239 --> 0:50:56.239 you know, I love the roles that I've accepted, you know, 0:50:56.360 --> 0:50:59.880 Benny Um, Diamond uh and my new show Ian. So 0:51:00.160 --> 0:51:02.279 from me, if I was ever going to you have 0:51:02.400 --> 0:51:04.200 to play it all the way. You see what I'm saying, 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:06.239 what I don't like, what I don't like When what 0:51:06.280 --> 0:51:08.720 actors do is they'll sit here and they say, Okay, 0:51:08.760 --> 0:51:10.840 you know what, I'm gonna accept this role because the 0:51:10.880 --> 0:51:13.120 hell of a check and I'm gonna get famous, right, 0:51:13.120 --> 0:51:15.600 because you know val Vallegna blow up. Let's let's take 0:51:15.680 --> 0:51:18.840 Uncle Clifford, Let's take Little Murder or something like that. Right, Um, 0:51:18.920 --> 0:51:21.160 let's go ahead and accept the role. We're gonna blow up, 0:51:21.160 --> 0:51:23.239 We're gonna get all the accolades and stuff like that, 0:51:23.320 --> 0:51:26.279 all these positive things. But then when you know, when 0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:27.960 the flip side of it comes and you have the 0:51:28.000 --> 0:51:29.840 trolls that come out of nowhere and people that are 0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:32.600 judging you and saying crazy stuff, you may not want that. 0:51:32.680 --> 0:51:34.920 So then when you're in the space of actually playing 0:51:34.960 --> 0:51:37.879 the role, you're holding back a little bit, actually going 0:51:38.000 --> 0:51:40.320 all the way there. So now you're doing a disservice 0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:43.280 to the to the role and actually the whole universe, 0:51:43.640 --> 0:51:45.200 like you know, the p Valley universe, if you will, 0:51:45.320 --> 0:51:48.160 the whole storyline. Um so I do think whatever, if 0:51:48.200 --> 0:51:50.480 you're going to accept the role, you have to go 0:51:50.600 --> 0:51:53.759 all you have to go in like hats yeah, I 0:51:53.800 --> 0:51:55.840 have I give my hats off to uh he you 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:58.000 know he's developed into my friend. Now his name is Alphons, 0:51:58.000 --> 0:51:59.880 who plays a Little Murder. You know my hat off 0:52:00.000 --> 0:52:03.680 on Yeah, because he's playing he's playing that role for 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:05.319 real and he's a straight man with the kid. He 0:52:05.320 --> 0:52:07.080 has a wife and a kid. You see what I'm saying. 0:52:07.200 --> 0:52:09.239 So he's doing that all the way. He's a he's 0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:12.359 a he's a veteran as an actor. He comes from 0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:14.600 he comes from the theater, right, so he's checking all 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:16.880 the way in there, and he deserves all the accolades 0:52:16.920 --> 0:52:19.720 that comes to UM. So just your to do your question. 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:22.560 You know, I'm I'm thankful for the roles that I've got. 0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:25.040 I don't UM. I don't see myself playing a woman, 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:28.279 but that's um. Just like it's okay to to play 0:52:28.280 --> 0:52:31.200 a woman, It's it's okay. It's also okay to choose 0:52:31.280 --> 0:52:33.560 not to. You know. The only thing is as as 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:36.000 an actor, you just have to make sure that you 0:52:36.040 --> 0:52:38.720 truly understand what you're stepping into, and if you step 0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:41.520 into it, you have to give a percent and cannot 0:52:41.560 --> 0:52:43.640 You know. Will Smith talks about it often. In his 0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:45.319 first role, I forget what it was that he played 0:52:45.320 --> 0:52:50.640 a gay role. I think so, and he talks about 0:52:50.640 --> 0:52:53.080 in hindsight he wishes he would have just did it 0:52:53.120 --> 0:52:55.719 all the way because in the moment he's worried about 0:52:55.760 --> 0:52:58.560 what his boys were gonna think, and all these outside circumstances, 0:52:58.680 --> 0:53:00.319 and he actually didn't do it. They had to cut 0:53:00.400 --> 0:53:03.160 around it to make it look real, and it kind 0:53:03.160 --> 0:53:05.360 of takes the performance down a little bit. You know 0:53:05.360 --> 0:53:10.600 what I'm saying, What about what about full frontsity? So 0:53:10.800 --> 0:53:13.239 I again I would do it. It would So if 0:53:13.280 --> 0:53:14.840 I was gonna do full frontal, it has to be 0:53:14.880 --> 0:53:17.000 on something like a P Valley, You see what I'm saying, 0:53:17.000 --> 0:53:20.440 where it's done tastefully. You know, you'll you'll see it 0:53:20.480 --> 0:53:22.399 there and you'll see the girls get you know, fully there. 0:53:22.520 --> 0:53:25.000 There's full new to be on that show. But it's done. 0:53:25.040 --> 0:53:28.879 It's done to support the story. It's not done out 0:53:28.880 --> 0:53:34.640 of nowhere. Look at it. Tell what if they tell 0:53:34.719 --> 0:53:36.680 you that we want you to be limp and then 0:53:36.680 --> 0:53:38.840 everybody's gonna be like, oh my god, this Penis is 0:53:38.840 --> 0:53:42.520 so small and you gotta ask him to be the 0:53:42.600 --> 0:53:46.120 shower grower first he might be he might be a shower. 0:53:46.560 --> 0:53:50.120 We need to do this Penis and I'm gonna shower. 0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:57.640 I'm good. So you got it, don't worries P Valley 0:53:57.680 --> 0:54:03.960 the middle person de Alley. So that's interesting too, because 0:54:04.480 --> 0:54:06.640 you know this was this was the first show that 0:54:06.840 --> 0:54:10.520 um in this in this season. I was not new. Um, 0:54:10.600 --> 0:54:13.359 we were getting into Diamond storyline and we weren't there yet. 0:54:13.440 --> 0:54:15.200 You know, who knows, maybe second season when you go 0:54:15.280 --> 0:54:17.719 home and you see or he's coming out the shower 0:54:17.760 --> 0:54:19.959 or something like that, when you see him in his life, 0:54:20.000 --> 0:54:21.959 you know, you actually never seen Diamond outside of the club. 0:54:22.239 --> 0:54:24.759 You have not exact but you was about to get 0:54:24.760 --> 0:54:26.880 it in with Mississippi in there. You didn't have to 0:54:26.920 --> 0:54:30.400 get out of there right under those we'll go to 0:54:30.440 --> 0:54:34.799 the breakroom. But I was said, we was ready to 0:54:34.840 --> 0:54:37.320 fight her after I don't I don't want to pull 0:54:37.360 --> 0:54:40.919 it just in case everybody didn't watch yet, but we 0:54:40.960 --> 0:54:43.400 was ready to jump her as a unit, like because 0:54:43.440 --> 0:54:46.600 you're like, girl, what are you doing right? How dare you? 0:54:46.920 --> 0:54:51.360 I think that, UM, don't give it real to wrap 0:54:51.400 --> 0:54:53.040 that up, because I wanted to touch it on, touch 0:54:53.080 --> 0:54:54.879 on the real quick. So this is my first time, 0:54:55.480 --> 0:54:59.799 she said, being a part of a show that had 0:55:00.160 --> 0:55:02.720 so much nudity. So I had seen the nudity writers 0:55:02.719 --> 0:55:04.880 and the nudity clauses and stuff like that. So there 0:55:04.880 --> 0:55:06.960 are certain things that you can show on certain things 0:55:06.960 --> 0:55:08.879 you can't show. So I didn't know if you guys 0:55:08.920 --> 0:55:11.080 know this, if you ladies know this, but you're actually 0:55:11.120 --> 0:55:16.279 not allowed to show a fully erect penis. Said that, 0:55:16.560 --> 0:55:19.479 so you can't show it differ like that on TV TV. 0:55:19.719 --> 0:55:23.439 So yeah, it's like so on TV you're actually only 0:55:23.440 --> 0:55:28.759 gonna see limp vix. Yeah when there like when um, 0:55:28.920 --> 0:55:30.759 what's his name Corbyn when he was in the in 0:55:30.800 --> 0:55:32.839 the cloud and he was there naked and the cloud, 0:55:32.840 --> 0:55:34.759 actually I heard it was a fake penis. Virgo told 0:55:34.800 --> 0:55:37.480 me that that wasn't even his real penis. But it 0:55:37.560 --> 0:55:39.759 wasn't hard. It wasn't look in his face. He's like, 0:55:41.160 --> 0:55:45.160 you wouldn't know, but it wasn't. But but but if 0:55:45.160 --> 0:55:48.279 you pay attention to when you watch it, it wasn't hard. 0:55:48.360 --> 0:55:50.080 He was just laying there and it was just laying there. 0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:52.520 So that I wonder why they would make that a role. 0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:56.719 That's so weird like way because that's yeah, and like 0:55:56.800 --> 0:55:58.799 same thing with you know, with the female anatomy, you're 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:00.520 not allowed to show the lips. You're not like there's 0:56:00.520 --> 0:56:02.239 certain you can show up, but not like you know 0:56:02.280 --> 0:56:07.120 what I'm saying, like, yeah, but you can't show like 0:56:07.160 --> 0:56:13.840 really in between the ladies can't wet Okay, you can't 0:56:13.840 --> 0:56:15.879 really you can't really get all of it like that. 0:56:15.960 --> 0:56:18.879 So there's certain rules. There's certain rules to the game. 0:56:19.239 --> 0:56:22.359 But to get into you know, Mississippi. Now, one thing 0:56:22.400 --> 0:56:24.239 that I can say about that because there was a 0:56:24.320 --> 0:56:27.759 lot of reaction on that last scene where she pulled 0:56:27.760 --> 0:56:31.040 the gun on Diamond. Um. There was a lot of it. Um. 0:56:31.160 --> 0:56:35.719 So now real quick, before I get into it, what 0:56:35.800 --> 0:56:37.719 do you think, like, what were you what were you 0:56:37.760 --> 0:56:39.600 all so upset about? What do you think that the 0:56:39.640 --> 0:56:41.600 audience was still in that more because she was still 0:56:41.640 --> 0:56:45.560 defending him, you were defending her against him, and then 0:56:45.600 --> 0:56:47.600 she came in there defending him and boud, I don't 0:56:47.640 --> 0:56:50.360 you Like I get abuse and all that, I understand, 0:56:50.440 --> 0:56:54.200 trust me, I'm more I overstand. But like we wanted 0:56:54.280 --> 0:56:56.600 y'all to hook up, you know what I mean, And 0:56:56.680 --> 0:56:59.759 we also wanted him to die. Guy you wanted with 0:56:59.880 --> 0:57:02.080 it asked or we wanted her to kill him. And 0:57:02.120 --> 0:57:04.359 then I think if he's a white boy too, like 0:57:04.680 --> 0:57:13.879 it didn't help. Sorry, So I think and Angela, did 0:57:13.880 --> 0:57:19.560 you see that? Did you see that thing? Yes? I did? Similar, Yeah, 0:57:19.600 --> 0:57:21.600 I mean, of course I think as a woman, and 0:57:21.640 --> 0:57:23.600 then we look at you like that's the you know, 0:57:23.840 --> 0:57:27.520 that's the guy, go to him, and then you put 0:57:27.560 --> 0:57:29.840 it and then you also put yourself in that position, 0:57:29.920 --> 0:57:31.920 like what would you do? But then of course we 0:57:31.960 --> 0:57:33.680 never know what we would do in real life, but 0:57:34.080 --> 0:57:35.680 from watching it, and I always think it's from the 0:57:35.680 --> 0:57:37.960 outside and you're watching something. And that's what makes these 0:57:38.040 --> 0:57:41.240 characters more complex, because anybody could watch something and say, 0:57:41.240 --> 0:57:43.440 if that was me, this is what I would do. 0:57:43.520 --> 0:57:47.440 But the anti school, so let us know with tea. Okay, 0:57:47.480 --> 0:57:50.280 so here's my thing on it. So I have to 0:57:50.320 --> 0:57:52.720 give again. I gotta just give a hat my hats 0:57:52.720 --> 0:57:54.600 off and a shout out to the Tory Hall because 0:57:54.880 --> 0:57:57.600 you know, as a writer, she's very specific and she's 0:57:57.640 --> 0:58:00.480 the one that really made this thing go, you know, 0:58:00.520 --> 0:58:02.560 getting got a hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes. You know, 0:58:02.680 --> 0:58:05.320 she's the one that really drives this thing. So she's 0:58:05.360 --> 0:58:08.160 the one who wrote that scene, right. So it's so 0:58:08.280 --> 0:58:12.280 easy to give the audience what they want that, you know, 0:58:12.360 --> 0:58:16.000 and here comes down, here comes diamond the night and shining. 0:58:16.080 --> 0:58:18.120 You're gonna save the day, you know, But if you 0:58:18.200 --> 0:58:20.360 look at you know, that would be just doing what 0:58:20.440 --> 0:58:25.520 the audience wants. That's not actually staying true to the story. Yeah, 0:58:25.600 --> 0:58:27.360 and like if you look at if you look at 0:58:27.440 --> 0:58:30.960 you know, the human condition. It's like if you if 0:58:30.960 --> 0:58:34.400 you look at unfortunately a lot of these people, you know, 0:58:34.440 --> 0:58:36.280 a lot of times it's it's females. But even then 0:58:36.520 --> 0:58:39.440 a lot of times these abused go back to the 0:58:39.480 --> 0:58:43.240 abuser like for whatever reason. It's crazy. It's like it's 0:58:43.240 --> 0:58:49.000 like something you know, something psychic exactly. So for her 0:58:49.080 --> 0:58:51.520 to keep it real in that moment, even though everyone 0:58:51.560 --> 0:58:53.920 wanted the opposite, it's like, man, my hat's off to 0:58:53.960 --> 0:58:56.480 her as a storyteller, because I know lots of storytellers 0:58:56.600 --> 0:58:58.400 that would have just given the audience what they wanted 0:58:58.400 --> 0:59:00.240 to a couple for a couple of ratings. You see 0:59:00.280 --> 0:59:04.600 what I'm saying. Because then think of the reaction that 0:59:04.640 --> 0:59:09.040 you had it so much stronger, because yeah, because if 0:59:09.080 --> 0:59:10.920 y'all they just would have been like, oh yeah, we 0:59:10.920 --> 0:59:13.240 wouldn't be talking about that right now. Probably would have 0:59:13.240 --> 0:59:15.640 just been another love scene. But like you said about 0:59:15.680 --> 0:59:18.000 all of us, how many times we've defended our man 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:21.000 that was cheating us, like from everybody else. And the 0:59:21.600 --> 0:59:24.120 more people go ask somebody, the more defensive you become 0:59:24.520 --> 0:59:27.280 of that person. Even when they don't. But being from 0:59:27.320 --> 0:59:29.520 the outside, if I was Mississippi, we would have shot 0:59:29.560 --> 0:59:31.320 that white man buried him and then when they had 0:59:31.360 --> 0:59:45.880 sex and sun like, let's go. I'm here, definitely need 0:59:45.960 --> 0:59:50.840 to be on there. What you don't know about me 0:59:51.000 --> 0:59:54.480 is I created the Last Dance ten years ago at 0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:57.880 Magic City. I retired and we named my retirement party 0:59:58.360 --> 1:00:04.120 the Last Dance Magic and and it and it became 1:00:04.160 --> 1:00:07.600 a thing. So after that, every time a dancer um 1:00:07.840 --> 1:00:11.960 left the club, she had a last dance. Yeah, Bibergo 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:14.720 and Simone was the trinity. You see how you guys 1:00:14.760 --> 1:00:18.680 had the trinity. So in Magic City we were called 1:00:18.720 --> 1:00:21.920 the snack Tack and we were their very first feature 1:00:22.000 --> 1:00:26.320 performance crew, Like we started that whole feature performance group 1:00:26.680 --> 1:00:31.640 performance thing in strip clubs. And again, uh Contori even said, 1:00:31.640 --> 1:00:34.160 and one of her press junkets that you know she 1:00:34.360 --> 1:00:38.400 created that night at the club to kind of mimic 1:00:38.480 --> 1:00:41.600 that Sunday night that Uh Mercedes had. She created that 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:43.880 the kind of mimic times at Magic City where and 1:00:43.880 --> 1:00:46.400 she actually said, my name, Gigi McGuire would pack out 1:00:46.440 --> 1:00:54.160 the club right now that I learned something from you 1:00:55.200 --> 1:00:58.000 that I remember my first time going to Magic City 1:00:58.080 --> 1:01:00.000 and I walked in and Gig was in there where 1:01:00.240 --> 1:01:02.680 and she just jumped off whatever she was doing and 1:01:02.760 --> 1:01:08.680 came to get me on and I was at my 1:01:08.720 --> 1:01:10.160 friends and I was like, I was like, this is 1:01:10.160 --> 1:01:12.080 my first time in Magic City. And then I walked 1:01:12.080 --> 1:01:14.640 into DJ was like angels there and then runs over 1:01:14.680 --> 1:01:18.800 there like girl, you shut this your first lives there 1:01:19.480 --> 1:01:23.400 right Still, we gotta have you ever thought about you 1:01:23.440 --> 1:01:25.800 ever thought about coming coming onto the set? I would 1:01:25.840 --> 1:01:29.720 love to. Yeah, on season two see til we're gonna film. 1:01:29.680 --> 1:01:31.760 We're gonna film it this summer, so hopefully, you know, 1:01:31.800 --> 1:01:34.320 the pandemic should be uh, if not all the way gone, 1:01:34.360 --> 1:01:37.320 like you know, much more subsided to like it's pandemic 1:01:37.360 --> 1:01:43.320 in Atlanta. We're open that should don't skip the Atlanta. 1:01:44.280 --> 1:01:46.600 But listen, this is really Funantila. We do appreciate you. 1:01:46.600 --> 1:01:48.800 You were really amazing. I didn't know what to expect 1:01:49.040 --> 1:01:51.320 when we did this interview, but we actually had a 1:01:51.360 --> 1:01:53.600 really great time with you. So we appreciate you being so. 1:01:53.720 --> 1:01:56.160 I knew he was fun because he was break dancing 1:01:56.200 --> 1:02:02.880 at Karen Civils. We have we have fun though, we 1:02:02.920 --> 1:02:05.280 have fun, so much fun. Care and so it was 1:02:05.320 --> 1:02:10.480 the birthday party. It was a great Yes, so so much. 1:02:10.560 --> 1:02:12.200 I've been support to you and we can't wait for 1:02:12.240 --> 1:02:13.880 the next season. We can't wait for the Amazon what's 1:02:13.880 --> 1:02:16.560 this series coming on Amazon Prime? So it's called it's 1:02:16.600 --> 1:02:20.160 called Harlem, and it's brought to you. Tracy Oliver is 1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:24.640 creating it and making goods on it. Uh, great, great, 1:02:24.680 --> 1:02:27.880 great viruses on it, and um, you know a few 1:02:27.880 --> 1:02:31.640 other phenomenal ladies and myself and uh, we're so we're 1:02:31.640 --> 1:02:34.880 gonna resume production, um in three weeks. So we were 1:02:34.920 --> 1:02:37.080 doing it, but we've been we've been on hiatus with 1:02:37.120 --> 1:02:39.360 the pandemic for like nine months now. Yeah, so we 1:02:39.440 --> 1:02:40.800 just figured out a way to get back on there. 1:02:40.840 --> 1:02:44.040 So we're gonna we're gonna resume. You are living a life. 1:02:44.040 --> 1:02:47.520 It's always a bunch of phenomenal women in yourself, you 1:02:47.560 --> 1:02:54.000 know life. But man, before before we before we bounced, 1:02:54.000 --> 1:02:55.720 real quick, I just wanted to say, you know, I've been, uh, 1:02:55.920 --> 1:02:57.360 you know, I've been I've been following you for a 1:02:57.360 --> 1:02:59.960 long time. Um, you know, and I had had a 1:03:00.160 --> 1:03:03.000 chance to, um, you know, obviously, get get on get 1:03:03.000 --> 1:03:06.280 on with you here and um and and I'm sorry 1:03:06.280 --> 1:03:10.560 real quick it's we've been we've been friends since Karen's party, 1:03:10.600 --> 1:03:13.080 but I didn't want to butcher your name. Yeah, I 1:03:13.280 --> 1:03:20.880 think everybody messes up my name. It's just you know, 1:03:20.920 --> 1:03:23.720 it's it's been extended to Loria and also Gi and 1:03:24.240 --> 1:03:26.880 you know, to have you ladies. You know what I'm saying, uh, 1:03:26.920 --> 1:03:29.080 you know, repping the way you are and continuing to 1:03:29.080 --> 1:03:32.760 follow your dreams. It's a man, it's inspiring. So again, 1:03:32.960 --> 1:03:34.680 keep keep doing what you're doing because I'm a fan 1:03:34.720 --> 1:03:36.920 of all three of you, and thank you for opening 1:03:37.000 --> 1:03:38.640 up your platform to allow me to come and just 1:03:38.880 --> 1:03:40.280 you know what I'm saying, talk to my ship and 1:03:40.320 --> 1:03:42.160 just just be with y'all for this morning. Well, I 1:03:42.160 --> 1:03:47.480 guess after over there, love ya, we love you, and 1:03:47.480 --> 1:03:53.959 thank you for waking up early. Yeah, we love you something. 1:03:54.200 --> 1:03:56.959 Thank you, thank you. I hope you doing a person, 1:03:57.000 --> 1:04:01.280 So absolutely we'll bring some blue moon with the oranges. 1:04:03.480 --> 1:04:04.760 With the oranges, I got you